"WEST BANK"

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

During a Security Council meeting to discuss the Palestinian question, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said, “there is no other viable solution to end the conflict. Those who continue to support a two-State outcome must acknowledge that derailing that prospect means that Palestinians and Israelis are facing a grim future of perpetual occupation, endless violence and threats to regional stability.” UNIFEED

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of his plans to annex West Bank settlements if re-elected, a UN spokesperson said, “any Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction, administration, in the occupied West Bank is without any international legal effect.” UNIFEED

Rising violence, settlement expansion continue to spark Israeli-Palestinian tensions as talks remain stalled, top official tells Security Council at 8604th meeting.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said tangible steps “can, and must, be taken to reverse the negative trajectory of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict urgently” in order to counter the “rising spectre of violence and the threat of regional escalation.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

United Nations human rights office called on the Israeli authorities to conduct a “thorough, effective, impartial and independent investigation” into shooting a Palestinian child in the head during demonstrations in Kafr Qadum on 12 July and condemned “strongly” the execution of two Bahraini men and called upon the Bahraini authorities to establish “an official moratorium on all executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.” UNTV CH

Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘locked in a dangerous paralysis’, Under-Secretary-General warns Security Council, urging political will, leadership to change course at 8583rd meeting.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.